Restaurants 2010

This page lists 135 meals I ate in restaurants in 2010.
Cities are in California except as noted, cost is per person including tip.
I have kept complete restaurant data since 2010,
though I generally don't list Costco shopping trip hot dog lunches or banh mi to go.
In rare instances where a restaurant experience is particularly noteworthy,
I post a review on Yelp under a pseudonym.

This page is dedicated to a few old favorites,
gone but not forgotten:
Elsie's, Kapok, Hsi Nan, El Tazumal, Cendrillon, Thanh Da.

My 2010 travel included three Tulane-related trips to New Orleans,
five short business trips to Chicago/Milwaukee,
and a wonderful vacation in New York.
This list is a lot shorter (ca. 1.5 restaurant meals per week)
without those trips;
we don't eat out often when we're at home.
Only half a dozen of the 15 dinners over $30/person are local.

My local favorites (four greasy spoons and one very nice restaurant):

Kingdom of Dumplings for Chinese dumplings

La Corneta (Glen Park or Mission), taqueria of choice

Le P'tit Laurent for a special occasion dinner (and it's in the neighborhood!)

New Asia Garden for dim sum

Pho Ha Tien for Vietnamese noodles and sandwiches

My favorite discovery of 2010: not a restaurant,
but the Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans;
see my sazerac cocktail page.